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In the 2016 Campaign, the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment Is Not Doing Well Either

02/01/2016

• Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

After months of reality-show media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign, the voting process is thankfully starting. As the voters begin to actually speak, perhaps the coverage will have more actual reality in it. In recent years, it is no secret that media coverage of elections virtually ignores where the candidates stand on major issues, in favor of the "horse race" involving candidates' political strategies and tactics, and now has even become merely celebrity gossip. One cynical analyst once said that politics is just Hollywood for ugly people.
So it should be no secret that Donald Trump, one of the kings of "reality" TV, has done much better than anyone ever thought he would. Outsiders in both parties seem to have performed better in this circus, because voters seem to be angry that, for decades, they have been repeatedly promised a fix to Washington's dysfunction--the most recent billed as "hope and change"--only to see the same old shenanigans continue there.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/in-the-2016-campaign-the_b_9131678.html